PROGRAM

Conference program* “Days of electronic communications”, village Glibivka, 30.05 – 02.06.2019

May 30, Thursday

13:00 Group transfers from the Southern Train Station
From 14:00 Reception of conference participants, registration, free time
15:00 Group transfer from the Pushkin Park in Kyiv
20:00 Welcome party «SES Magic Forest» (hotel’s restaurant “Glebovka”)

May 31, Friday

08:30–09:30 Group transfer from Mins’ka metro station to Gintama Breeze
08:00–9:45 Breakfast time at the hotel
10:00–10:45 Opening. The thorny path of Ukraine to the EU. Moderator – Oleksandr Baranov

Participants of the discussion:

Oleksandr Danchenko, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Informatization and Communications;
Grigory Shverk, People’s Deputy of Ukraine (there is no confirmation yet);

Ulyana Feschuk, Deputy Chairman of the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine;
Oleg Chernysh, Member of the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine;
Ilmars Muuls, Chairman of the Latvian Association of Electronic Communications.
Oleksandr Fedyenko, Chairman of the Ukrainian Internet Association;
Natalia Klitna, Head of the Association of Rightsholders and Content Providers

10:45–13:00 Digital transformation: the future of the industry. Forecasts from global and creative players. Moderators – Oleksandr Fedyenko, Natalia Klitna
10:45-11:00 “Satellite Monitor Research: Results at the End of 2018 and Market Analysis. Onno Zonneveld, Head of SES ASTRA AB in Ukraine and CIS countries

“Fixed Communication in Ukraine: Analysis and Vision of Huawei” Yuri Vladarchyk, Huawei Network Technology Development Manager

“Data on the development of broadband networks and standardization of the physical infrastructure of telecommunications” Viktor Katok, PJSC “Ukrtelecom”

“The situation on the market of cable television, IPTV and OTT in Germany.” Hermann Heer, Astro Strobel

“Business of Video Services, Huawei’s Vision” by Anton Kulish, Huawei Cell Development Manager

“Ukrainian Pay TV Market – Product, Potential, Opportunities, Drivers”, Konstantin Novitsky, Commercial Director of COSMONOVA|NET

The discussion with the participation of Oleksandr Harutyunyan, “Pavutyna.net”; Oleksandr Savchuk, Atracom; Serhii Sukhoruk, Kyivstar

11:00-11:15
11:15-11:30
11:30-11:45
11:45-12:00
12:00-12:15
12:15-13:00
13:00-13:30 The satellite encoding status and the pay-TV market potential. Moderator – Natalia Klitna, APPK

Panel discussion with the participation of: Julia Trybushna, director of the Digital and PayTV StarLightMedia division; Denis Vasyanovych, General Director of LLC “Thorsat”;

Yaroslav Pakholchuk, Executive Director/Head of Pay-TV “1 + 1 Media”

13:30–14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15.30 Internet of ThingsIOT. The first steps of the introduction of practical cases. Monetization.

Moderator of section – Oleksandr Fedyenko, UIA.

  • “About the situation that exist at the present time in the IoT market”, Oleksandr Fedyenko, UIA;
  • “Development of Kyiv Smart City Telecommunications: wi-fi, LTE, LoRaWAN” Viacheslav Novokhats’kyi, Director of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies of Kyiv City State Administration.

Discussion Questions:

– Basic infrastructure: advantages and conditions for formation

– Possibility of using the LoRaWAN, LTE networks in the work of municipal services and offices

– “Internet of Things on a scale of city”: LoRaWAN and NB-IoT networks based on LTE as an opportunity for the development of the city’s IOT system. Potential services based on IOT

– City Wi-Fi – Existing network and coverage prospects.

Olexandr Baranov, UIA, Vadym Sydorenko, director of the “Triolan” company, Oleksii Zaienchkovskii, UTG will take part in the discussion.

15.30 – 15:50 “New models of providing IT services to schools”, Volodymyr Ilibman, Cisco
15:50–16:40 Battle of vendors of equipment: can quality be cheap?

Moderator –Mykola Kozak

Discussion Questions:

● Vision of the development of market of the Ukrainian telecom equipment: trends, technological innovations, players’ expectations

● Trends in technology development: the prospects for the development of PON-technologies compared to Ethernet and DOCSIS. What prevents penetration of PON-networks in multi-storey buildings?

● Are there any prospects for the market of TV equipment, new or used equipment market?

● Can quality be cheap? Where is the limit to ensuring quality?

● Do providers ready to build high-quality networks?

● Financial programs to stimulate technology development.

Participants: Yurii Blazhiievskyi and Vladyslav Sevruk, DEPS; Ruslan Tysovs’kyi “Network technologies”; Oleksandr Fedorovs’kyi, NG Optics; Hermann Heer, Astro Strobel; Yurii Zaika, Omnilink; Oleksandr Seliuk, “MTI”

16:40-17:00 Coffee break 
17:00–17:45 A fine line between information security issues and cybersecurity issues, while leaving the Internet-environment free. Moderator – Oleksandr Fedyenko, UIA

Participants: Oleksandr Baranov, UIA; Maksym Tuliev, NetAssist; invited representatives of SSU (speaker clarifies)

17:45-18:45 Presentation of the study of price elasticity for fixed Internet and paid TV: on the way to ARPU $10. Discussion of draft codes of professional ethics in the area of providing access to the Internet and television. Moderator – Oleksandr Harutyunyan, UIA.

● “Are there any risks of signing competition rules?” Volodymyr Yefimenko, partner of the law firm “Golovan’ and partners“. Participants of the panel discussion: Svitlana Ostapenko, “Content Trading” Director; Serhii Boyko, Director of BigDataUA; Natalia Klitna, the Association of Rightsholders and Content Providers

18:45–19:15 Group transfer from “Gintama Breeze” to Mins’ka metro station
18:00–20:00 MakeUp&Photo Zone by company Sony Channel (promenade)
20:00 – 23:00 “Lock&Key-party”. Musical partner – TV channel “MusicBox”
June 1, Saturday
08:45–09:45 Group transfer from Mins’ka metro station to Gintama Breeze
08:00–10:30 Breakfast time at the hotel
09:30–10:30 Business breakfast with right-holders: informal communication (hotel “Glebovka”, a Wardroom of the restaurant “Lighthouse” (“Mayak”).

Moderator – Paul Mandryk, Internet publication “Telekritika”

Free TV, Pay TV and hybrid models – How can they coexist? What will change after encoding a satellite signal of 4 telegroups?

Yaroslav Pakholchuk, “1 + 1 Media”; Mykola Faiengold, StarLight Digital; Oleksandr Remyzovskyi, “Media Group Ukraine”; Denys Vasyanovych “THORSAT”; Serhii Osadchyi, Sony Pictures Television Networks; Rodion Pryntsevskyi, Fox NetworksGroup; Vadym Sydorenko, Director of “Triolan” will take part in discussion.

10:30–11:50 With the support of the Center for Democracy and the Rule of Law “CEDEM”

About the draft Law “On audiovisual media services” change of approaches in regulation. Discussion Questions: electronic cabinets, disclosure of subscriber bases, excessive management of productive company, compulsory audit, black & white lists of foreign TV channels, quotas and other requirements for OTT and social networks. Will YouTube register? Moderator – Head of the Association of Rightsholders and Content Providers Natalya Klitna.

Participants of the discussion: People’s Deputy of Ukraine Hryhoriy Shverk, Ulyana Feschuk, Deputy Chairman of the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine, Oleg Chernysh, Member of the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine, Igor Rozkladai, Center for Democracy and Rule of Law “CEDEM”, Kostiantyn Zhakun, UIA, Ilmars Mulls, Chairman of the Latvian Association of Electronic Communications, Oleksandr Rezunov, “OTT-Ukraine”

11:50-12:00 “IP signal delivery – world and Ukrainian realities”. Andrii Nazaruk, Head of COSMONOVA|NET TV Solutions Department
12:00–13:00 Access to infrastructure: how to make the law work? Our strength is in unity! Moderator of the section – Kostiantyn Zhakun, UIA

Olena Osadchyh, Head of the Access Bureau of the Association of Rightsholders and Content Providers, Anatoliy Pyatnikov, Director of “IT Teleset`”, Tetyana Chekulaeva, Expert on access to construction objects, Latvia, Oleksandr Fedyenko, UIA, Natalya Klitna, the Association of Rightsholders and Content Providers

13:00–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–15:00 Expectations and realities of the reform in the field of copyright and (or) related rights. Will providers pay the organization for collective exercise? Moderator – Head of the Association of Rightsholders and Content Providers, Natalya Klitna.

Participants of the discussion: Ulyana Feschuk, Deputy Chairman of the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine, Igor Koval’, Director of the Industrial Television Committee, Ilmars Mulls, Head of the Latvian Association of Electronic Communications, Valerii Zhaldak, Director of the Department of Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade; Kostiantyn Zhakun, UIA; Svitlana Ostapenko, “Content Trading” Director

15:00–16:00 Piracy – blocking of content on the Internet.

Discussion Questions: technical protection of content as a way of combating piracy, technical aspects of content blocking by providers, legal possibilities of protecting intellectual property rights by right holders, alternative methods of blocking “pirates”, Latvia’s experience of blocking on the Internet, common motives for cooperation of providers in the fight against piracy and rights holders and possible options. Moderator – Katerina Fedorova, Director of the Clear Sky Initiative.

Participants of the discussion: Lyubov Yaroshevs`ka, Irdeto company representative in Ukraine, Ilmars Mulls, Chairman of the Latvian Association of Electronic Communications, Igor Mikhailov, Deputy Chairman of the Ukrainian Anti-Piracy Association, Anatolii Skyba, the head of the Kyiv cyberpolice department, Oleksandr Paputsya, lawyer, partner of SmartSolutions Law Group, Mykola Faiengold, Commercial director of StarLight Digital, Paul Mykoliuk, director of the “Vindex” law firm, Oleksii Shul`deshov, producer of STAR MEDIA TV channels

16:00–16:30 Coffee break
16:30–18:00 Academy of growth 2019: Workshop on monetization of television service.

The experience of how to improve sales will be shared by: Maxym Kravchuk, “Triolan”; Mykola Faiengold, commercial director of the PayTV & Digital division; Oleksandr Harutyunyan, “Pavutyna.Net”; Igor Khliupin, “Intraffic”; Kateryna Shvydanenko, director of research analytics of StarLightMedia; Oleksii Zaienchkovskyi, co-founder of “Ukrainian Telecommunication Group” and “Prosto TV”; Oleksandr Rezunov, TRINITI; Mykola Andrushchenko, “Lanet”

20:00 Group transfer from “Gintama Breeze” to Mins’ka metro station
20:30–23:20 Closing. The final party «Song&fire-party». With the support of Umanpivo, TV channels “Football 1” and “Football 2”

June 2, Sunday

08:00–9:30 Breakfast time at the hotel
Until 12:00 Check-out, a group transfer to Mins’ka metro station and the train station

* The Program Committee reserves the right to make changes and additions

** Entrance to the party – in the presence of a bracelet provided by the organizers at the time of registration